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Millerite from
Key West Mine, Whitney Pocket Basin, Bunkerville Mining District, Virgin Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Millerite
Formula:NiS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Millerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Key West Mine, Whitney Pocket Basin, Bunkerville Mining District, Virgin Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:287494
Long-form Identifier:1:3:287494:4
GUID (UUID V4):e7d06ae8-f43b-41c0-8b0c-16fc3a875b5d
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Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU... UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.— Ist
Report (volume)
---------------------------------- Lynn Lake district----------------------------------------Thompson-~oak...-----Alexo Nickel mine ____________________________________ - ___ Kenora district ______ ----- _____...___ ------------------------------------U nga va district ______________________________ - _- ---------UI...---------------------------------------Bohemia Basin, 1rakobi Island______________________________ Brady...----------------------------------------Saline CountY--------------------------------------------Cal
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA STEPHEN B. CASTOR and G R EGOR Y C . F E R D OC K l NEVADA BUREAU...association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS Reno & Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...-Publ ication Dat,i Castor, Stephen B. Minerals of Nevada/ Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.- rst
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
31 December 2014 NEVADA MINERAL STEVEN PULLMAN 1755 Circle Drive NW Reno, Nevada 89509 RICHARD THOMSSEN...THOMSSEN P.O. Box 1656 Carson City, Nevada 89702 Map showing Nevada counties, by William W.Besse. N evada...minerals new to the state being identified every year. Nevada is one of the few western states without a published...Friends of Mineralogy, and especially the Great Basin Chapter, for their foresight and enthusiasm in initiating...'Ike Paao ama, Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain
Report (issue)
a = 5.967 Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Vermilion mine, Sudbury, Canada. 1.801 (100), 0.777 (90), 1.148...42.8 (2) 43.44 Total 99.68 100.00 (1) Vermilion mine, Sudbury, Canada; by electron microprobe, corresponding...gersdorffite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, violarite, millerite, galena, stibnite, argentian gold, niggliite,...mines, Algoma district, near Sudbury, Ontario. In the USA, at the New Rambler Cu–Ni mine, Medicine Bow...Bow Mountains, east of Encampment, Albany Co., Wyoming; in the Key West mine, east of Moapa, Bunkerville
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SULFIDE PARAGENESIS IN THE EASTERN METALS MONTMAGNY COUNTY, QUEBEC DEPOSIT, D. W. POLLOCK ABSTRACT The...feet apart on the surface. The nickel minerals millerite, gersdorffite,and violarite havebeenidentifiedin...studyinga suiteof specimens from the Eastern Metals mine in the Eastern Townships of the Provinceof Quebec...of nickelwasfirst reportedin 1949and in I95I the mining rights were purchasedby Ascot Metals Corporation...writer's visit. It has sincebeenacquired by Mogul Mining Corporation. The depositattractedattentiondue to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Davy published a description of the Key West nickel mine, Nevada.2 Tliey note the same relationship;...Lindgren, W. and Dary, W. M., Nickel Ores from Key West mine, Nevada' Econ. Geology, vol. 19, pp. 3W-3I9, 1924...AMERICAN MINERALOGIST sulphide from the Vermilion mine, Sudbury, Ontario, which for many years has been...publishing his own paper, Buddington examined the Key West specimens collected by Lindgren and Davy and found...found that the violet-colored mineral from Key West was identical with nickel mineral X. He is not convinced
Journal (issue)
. Ley The Sm okey Bear quartz claim s, Lincoln County, N ew M exico ...................................find a pegmatite a “half-mile” from the Palermo mine, in New Hampshire. It was originally identified...removal or partial change of some reference points (mine dumps, for example), or all simple reference points...matter of public record and may be found in the county zoning offices. The accurate property boundaries...It may already have a grid, especially if it’s a mining property. If so, always use the one that already
Book (volume)
rectangular Great Plains state rises 4,460’ east to west, from 840’ to 5,300’, yet so imperceptibly. The...erosional debris spreading out from the Rocky Mountains as they rose during the Larimide revolution of...sandhills fan out across the west and northwest counties, while the farthest west reaches rise to the high...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Fourteen, Number Three Articles Across the San Juan Mountains ..................................................157 by C. Albertini Sellaite from the Brumado mine ..................................................MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY FORMED The Southern Great Basin Mineralogical Society has recently been formed as...as a vehicle for mineral collectors in Nevada (Clark, Esmeralda, Lincoln and Nye Counties), Utah (Beaver
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chalcocite, pentlandire, cubanire, corellite,millerite,molybdenite, marcasite,tetrahedrite, bismuthinite...The mineralsare indicatedby an abbreviation with a key givenbelow. Thesetablessummarizea largemassof datain...Ak-tyus, Russia (xoo) .................. Alamo District, Lower California ,.• • ,.• 0 x x x x x...(65) .... x x x x x x x x x x x x x Ashley Mine, Ont. (95) ................. Atikokan, Ont. (45)...(9) ..................... x x x x x x x Beattie Mine, Que. (30) ................ x x x x x Several
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGY JUNE-JULY, ORES FROM x924. KEY WEST No. 4 MINE, NEVADA. WALDEMAR LINDGREN AND W. MYRON...represent average nickel ore of the Key West Mine, in Southern Nevada, was transmittedto us by Dr. CharlesL...and their relations. The Key West Mine, in Clark County, in Southern Nevada, was briefly describedby...describedby Bancroft in z9o9.• The district lies abouttwenty-fourmileseastsoutheast of Moapaon the Salt Lake and...G•ol. Survey, pp. 192-199, I9o 9. in Southeastern Nevada," Bull. 430, lJ. S. 3o9 31o WALDEMAR ANALYSIS
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal... Washington....... Prof. Henry Landes, Seattle. West Virginia... .Dr. I. C. White, Morgantown. Wisconsin
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................................................ 187 Nevada................................................................................................. West Virginia..........................................vanadium minerals in the high plateau region of the West. The present bulletin, like the earlier work, gives...to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to
Report (volume)
amounts in the following sulfides: Polydymite, millerite, siegenite, bravoite, and violarite. Nickell....of nickel are those being mined in the Sudbury district, Ontario, Canada. Vast nickeliferous laterites...BIBLIOGRAPHY Aaron, C. H., 1882, Nickel and cobalt: Mining Sci. Press, v. 44, no. 12, p. 196. Acad. Sci. U...Manitoba ; Canadian Mining Metall. Bull. 461, p. 509-514; Canadian Inst. Mining and Metallurgy Trans...Cost of mining 55 tons of copper-nickel ore at the Great Eastern prospect, Bunkerville, Clark County, Nev
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
association of native gold with niccolite and primary millerite, is considered unusual. The ore is believed to...gold with niccolite, and the presenceof primary millerite, also containing gold, is extraordinary. This...is located at Alistos, in the Badiraguato mining district, Sinaloa, Mexico, near the boundary of Sinaloa...maucherite, and gangue.Type 2, the gold-millerite ore, is made up of millerite, pentlandite, gersdorff.te,pyrite...association of each type of ore is distinctive. Millerite, pentlandite, and violarite do not occur in the
Report (issue)
a = 9.51 Z=8 X-ray Powder Pattern: Vermilion mine, Sudbury, Canada. 2.85 (100), 1.674 (80), 1.820...Vermilion mine, Sudbury, Canada; contains trace chalcopyrite. (2) Friday mine, Julian, California, USA; contains...Pyrrhotite, millerite, chalcopyrite, pentlandite. Distribution: In the USA, from the Friday mine, Julian...California; the Key West mine, Clark Co., Nevada; the Copper King mine, Gold Hill district, Boulder Co....deposit, Floyd Co., Virginia; and the Gap Nickel mine, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania. In Canada, from the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
into millerite; he also held that beyrichite, by addition of nickel from solution, forms millerite. Liebe's...Laspeyres(1892), who went so far as to assert that ali millerite is an alteration product of beyrichite and that...literature, and accepts beyrichite as a dimorph of millerite. He notes that unchanged beyrichite is known from...Dillenburg, Germany Millerite (and a very little unidentified material) Etna mine, Napa County, Calif. Roebling...Saxony Holden Collection 82030, Lammerichskaule mine, Westphalia, Germany Violarite (on cinnabar) Iron
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
alteration of pentlandite. Violarite also forms from millerite, but alteration of pyrvhotit½to violarite has...brokenand embayededges. The surrounding massis millerite (grayishwhite). Planepolarizedlight, oil, 500X...Massiveviolarite (2) (mediumgray) with residualislandsof millerite (light gray). Plane polarizedlight, oil, 200X...hpo•hexagonal pyrrhotite, mack--mackinawite, ml--millerite, mpo• monoclinic pyrrhotite, ms--marcasite, pm--polydymite...locality Eastern Metals deposit,Quebec Dry Nickel mine, Bindura, S. Rodesia Sample no. 67 2298 Sulfide
Book
indexing is based "key words" in the titles, so that the user need remember only one key word from a title...come. Wendell E. Wilson Tucson May 24, 1995 5 KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS The following abbreviations and...ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986 [ ONTARIO] NEVADA] [ 16 / 1985 [ 65-128 265-328 261-336 209-272...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN
Book (edition)
YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...South and in the States and Ter ritories of the far West. These changes, for the most part, have been progressive...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in...correspondence has been carried on with geologists, mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und
Report (volume)
Bulletin, vol. 45. New York. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, UOS. 73-84; Transactions,...4th ser., vols. 35, 36. New Haven, Conn. American Mining Congress: Papers and Addresses, 15th Ann. Session;... 265-454. San Francisco, Cal. California State Mining Bureau : Bulletin, no. 63. San Francisco, Cal....Transactions, vol. 10, pt. 1. Toronto, Ont. Canadian Mining Institute: Quarterly Bulletin, no. 22; Journal...General Index, vols. 1-10. Ottawa, Ont. Canadian Mining Journal, vol. 34. Toronto and Montreal. Canada
Report (volume)
anonymous papers, placed at the end of Part I Co. county cos. · counties CORPORATE AUTHORS. Am G American...Miners' Association Cal St :M Bur California State Mining Bureau Can G S Canada, Geological Survey Can :M...Territories V a G S Virginia Geological Survey W Va. G S West Virginia Geological Survey Wash Ac Sc Washington...the year of publication.] Abandoned valleys, Ohio basin: Campbell CM R), Ola Aberdeen-Redfield folio, S...Adams (F D), 18 Federal Government, relation to the mining industry: Hayes, 06 Fossil insects: Cockerell,
 
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